Absinthe Jailbreak for iPhone 4S & iPad 2 Released [Download Links]

The hotly anticipated jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 is finally here, providing an untethered jailbreak for either A5-based device running iOS 5.0.1. Put together by the Chronic Dev Team who are known for making Greenpois0n, the utility is called Absinthe A5 and it is hot off the presses.

Backup your iPhone or iPad before using Absinthe! This is an early release jailbreak and could have some bugs to iron out still.

I had this problem too.
Something I previously installed on my macbook apparently interferes with absinthe and made it crash as soon as i connected the iPad.
I then tried it on my spouses iMac and had no issues at all.
If you don’t have access to another mac you could use a freshly installed OS.

If you go to friend / neighbour remember the iPhone/iPad has to have wifi internet access to complete the process!

I jailbroke my phone without issues yesterday, until this morning when I shut it off, and tried to reboot it. Now it stays at the Apple boot screen. Anyone run into this issue? I didn’t tether jailbreak prior to running absinthe, it was a factory phone.

Absinthe quit unexpectedly solution!! At least for me.
Backup iPad. When done, go to settings (in the iPad) hit general -> Reset -> Erase all content and settings. When done, activate iPad and run Absinthe and ur good to go. Jailbreak took less than 5 min. Once Jailbroken go to iTunes, right click on iPad and hit “restore from Backup”. Hope this helps.

Absinthe quit unexpectedly solution!! At least for me.
Backup iPad. When done, go to settings (in the iPad) hit general -> Reset -> Erase all content and settings. When done, activate iPad and run Absinthe and ur good to go. Jailbreak took less than 5 min. Once Jailbroken go to iTunes, right click on iPad and hit “restore from Backup”. Hope this helps.

it freaking works there is no problem with this jail break it works just as they say i use windows 7 also created a folder on desk top before running it back up to itunes, plug in my ipad 2 press jail break also made sure there was no lock turn it off absinthe icon appear tap on it it rebooted and it was jailbroken with no problems what so ever also before running the jailbreak app when you open it make sure you make it adminitrator good luck but it works and might god it is free i say free

Iphone worked like a charm. Ipad 2 is having some problems. It says “ABSINTHE is now setting things up,….” But it doesn’t finish. I tried resetting the settings as discussed above. We’ll see what happens.

First time I ran this on my iPad2 Absinthe froze (no, really, it did. I wasn’t being impatient), then when I tried again I got into an endless loop where Absinthe said ‘it looks like you tried and failed, let us repair things for you’ (or words to that effect) but it just kept repeating that every time I plugged in the iPad. So I booted iTunes and did a restore from the backup I had made. Then I tried Absinthe again… worked like a dream! Now I’m back into Clydea, have re-installed Installous etc… all fine. So if you have problems it’s definitely worth persevering.
Thanks to all the ace hackers for this superb (and FREE) jailbreak.

Hey guys I have iPhone 4S running on version 5.0 As the instructions are above I’ll backup my device and run the Absinthe software. After it’s done, this where my confusion starts. After the above process is done should I open the icon on my phone 1st or should I restart it. Should the iPhone be connected to the wifi during the process or after it’s done. If something goes wrong as you I’ll restore using iTunes but while doing it so doesn’t the iTunes automatically update the software of iPhone to the latest version? Please guys help me through this. I am really confused

I have an ipad2.i try to download some of these jailbreak software programs.i get this fine light blue streak go across the top of my safari browser.and then I get nothing else.can someone help me?thank you for yalls time